Most of the world’s cities will be unable to host the Games in the coming decades’ summer months, in the coming decades, as they blow past the threshold of safe humid heat.
as the last football world cup showed us, as long as fans conveniently ignore the truth of exploited workers and lap up the sporting spectacle, the troubles of construction labourers are nothing to worry about.
It’s fine. I’m sure Qatar can just build a giant air conditioned city.
But what about when the rate of migrants dying of heatstroke while constructing it outpaces the rate at which they can coercively import them
What then
as the last football world cup showed us, as long as fans conveniently ignore the truth of exploited workers and lap up the sporting spectacle, the troubles of construction labourers are nothing to worry about.
Throw up their hands and say, “For a brief moment, we created a lot of value for our stakeholders.”